Trump credits Warmbier for NK summit: 'Otto did not die in vain'

Blanca Howell |Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Trump Says That Without Otto Warmbier, North Korea Summit Wouldn't Have Happened

After warning one another of nuclear annihilation, US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to work out a deal that includes US security guarantees in exchange for de-nuclearisation.

"So I think the rhetoric - I hated to do it". It was brutal. A lot of people started to focus on what was going on, including North Korea'.

'Otto Warmbier is a very special person and he will be for a long time in my life.

Despite Kim's pledges for denuclearization and the optimism for further talks, the easing of restrictive measures on Pyongyang will not be coming in the near future, according to Trump.

During the first press conference after his historic meeting with the North Korean leader, Trump said USA war games in the region would be "provocative" amid talks with Pyongyang and promised to suspend them.

A joint declaration after the first meeting between a us president and a North Korean leader called the summit "an epochal event of great significance in overcoming decades of tensions and hostilities between the two countries and for the opening up of a new future".

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He also cited Kim for taking "decisive, proactive action" such as North Korea's claims that it destroyed a key nuclear test site last month.

Warmbier, a 22-year-old University of Virginia student from OH, was imprisoned in North Korea in March 2016 after he was arrested for taking a poster from a hotel he was staying in while on a tourist visit to Pyongyang and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor.

He had been imprisoned in North Korea from January 2016 after being sentenced to 15 years of hard labour for trying to steal an item bearing a propaganda slogan from his hotel, North Korea state media said. We know where it is because of the heat.' It's incredible the equipment we have, to be honest with you. He died days later on June 19, and it is still not known what exactly killed him. Trump tweeted in September 2017 that Warmbier "was tortured beyond belief by North Korea".

Even as it is not easy to map the internal faultlines of Kim's regime, the United States did enough to get him to turn up in Singapore. "It is a list of aspirational goals", said Evans Revere, a former U.S. negotiator with North Korea.

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